4-letter words starting with c
- chod — (Geordie) A fat person. Short for chodder.
- chog — the core of a piece of fruit
- chon — a North and South Korean monetary unit worth one hundredth of a won
- choo — (onomatopoeia) The sound of a locomotive whistle.
- chop — If you chop something, you cut it into pieces with strong downward movements of a knife or an axe.
- chor — (Geordie) Alternative form of chore#Etymology_2 (to steal).
- chou — a type of cabbage
- chow — Food can be referred to as chow.
- chrp — PowerPC Platform
- chub — a common European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Leuciscus (or Squalius) cephalus, having a cylindrical dark greenish body
- chug — When a vehicle chugs somewhere, it goes there slowly, noisily and with difficulty.
- chum — Your chum is your friend.
- chup — Be quiet!.
- chur — an informal expression of agreement
- chut — an expression of surprise, impatience, or annoyance
- ciao — Some people say 'Ciao' as an informal way of saying goodbye to someone who they expect to see again soon.
- cica — Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
- cics — Customer Information Control System
- cidr — Classless Inter-Domain Routing
- ciel — (language) An object-oriented Prolog-like language.
- cien — Obsolete spelling of scion.
- cife — Colleges and Institutes for Further Education
- cifs — Common Internet File System
- cigs — Chief of the Imperial General Staff
- cill — More usual spelling of sill when used in the context of an underwater horizontal member which forms the base of a lock gate on a canal or river.
- cima — Obsolete spelling of cyma (18th century).
- cine — Cine is used to refer to things that are used in or connected with the making or showing of films.
- cinq — (gambling, board games) five side of a die.
- cion — scion (sense 1)
- cir. — (preceding a date) circa
- cirb — Canada Industrial Relations Board
- circ — circular (def 9).
- cire — (of fabric) treated with a heat or wax process to make it smooth
- cirl — a bird belonging to the bunting family
- cis- — on this or the near side of
- cisc — Complex Instruction Set Computer
- cisi — (company) A French software producer.
- cist — a wooden box for holding ritual objects used in ancient Rome and Greece
- cite — If you cite something, you quote it or mention it, especially as an example or proof of what you are saying.
- cito — swiftly
- cits — pure consciousness.
- city — The City is the part of London where many important financial institutions have their main offices. People often refer to these financial institutions as the City.
- cize — (obsolete) bulk; largeness; size.
- cjkv — (character) CJK plus Vietnamese. Vietnamese, like the other three CJK languages, requires 16-bit character encodings but it does not use Han characters.
- clad — If you are clad in particular clothes, you are wearing them.
- clag — sticky mud
- clam — Clams are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten.
- clan — A clan is a group which consists of families that are related to each other.
- clap — When you clap, you hit your hands together to show appreciation or attract attention.
- clas — A Celtic monastery.